After playing into mid-june and then missing the entire offseason with a busted sternum, resulting in a slow start to this season, it appears as though Chucky is back!
Month of Janurary
That aside, I was messing around looking at some posession stats on NHL.com and thought this was pretty cool.
SAT is the total difference of every shot attempt a player's team has had vs allowed while the player was on the ice. Top 15 since the league started recording the stat in 2009:
That seems pretty impressive... but Tkachuk's first season was 2016-17 and these counts go all the way back to 2009-10. There are some pretty significant differences in games played there amongst that group...
SAT% is the percent of shot attempts a player's team has had out of all shot attempts that occured while the player was on the ice (min. 400 games played). Here's the top 5 since 2009:
I know SAT(Corsi)/USAT(Fenwick) aren't everyone's favourite stats, but in terms of just measuring puck posession (you still can't take a shot if you don't have the puck), it still suffices.
Anyway, I just thought it was pretty wild that he's behind only Bergeron and Datsyuk. (Edit: I just realized that makes him #1 amongst all active players, with Marchand just behind. Crazy!)